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Gregorius Agilulpbo regi Langobardorum. Gratias excellentias vestræ referimus, quia petitionem nostram audientes, pacem quæ utrisque esset partibus profutura, sicut de vobis confidentiam habuimus, ordinastis. Ex qua re 958 excellentiæ vestrae prudent'am et bonitatem valde laudavimus, quia pacem diligendo vos Deum qui ipsius est auctor amare demonstrastis. Nam si, a quod absit, facta non fuisset, quid aliud agi habuil, nisi ut, cum peccato et periculo partium, miserorum rusticorum sanguis, quorum labor utrisque proficit, funderetur ?
Gregory to Agilulf, king of the Lombards. We give thanks to your Excellency, because, hearing our petition, you have established the peace that would profit both parties, just as we had confidence in you. For which reason we greatly praised the prudence and goodness of your Excellency, because by loving peace you showed that you love God, who is its very author. For if — which God forbid — it had not been made, what else would have had to be done, except that, with the sin and peril of both parties, the blood of the wretched country-folk, whose labour benefits both sides, should be shed?
額我略致倫巴底王阿吉盧夫。我們感謝陛下，因你聽了我們的請求，正如我們對你所懷的信心一樣，締結了那對雙方皆有益處的和平。為此，我們大大稱讚陛下的明智與良善，因你以愛好和平顯明你愛那位和平的創始者天主。因為若這和平未能成就——但願不至如此——除了使雙方陷於罪與危險，並使那勞苦有益於兩方的可憐農夫的血白白流淌之外，還能有什麼結局呢？
550:2
Sed ut prodesse nobis eamdem pacem, quemadmodum a vobis facta est, sentiamus, paterna charit ite salulantes, petimus ut quoties se occasio dederit, ducibus vestris per diversa loca, et maxime in his partibus constitutis, vestris præcipiatis epistolis ut hanc pacem, sicut promissum est, b pure custodiant, et occasiones sibi aliquas non quaerant unde aut contentio quaedam, c aut d ingratitudo nascatur, qualenus voluntati vestræ amplius agere gratias valeamus. Latores vero praesentium sicut revera homines vestros eo quod decuit affectu suscepimus, quia justum fuii ut viros sapientes, et qui pacem factam Deo propitio nuntiarent, cum charitate et suscipere et dimittere deberemus.
But that we may feel this same peace to profit us, in the manner in which it has been made by you, greeting you with fatherly charity, we ask that, as often as occasion offers, you command by your letters your dukes stationed in various places, and especially in these parts, that they keep this peace purely, as was promised, and not seek for themselves any occasions from which either some strife or some ingratitude might arise, so that we may be able to give still greater thanks for your goodwill. The bearers of these presents, moreover, we have received truly as your men, with the affection that was fitting, because it was just that we should both receive and dismiss with charity men who are wise, and who announced, God being favourable, that peace had been made.
但為使我們得以感受這和平如你所締造般帶給我們益處，我們以父親般的愛德向你問安，請求你每逢有機會之時，以你的書信吩咐分駐各處、尤其是駐守此地的諸公，叫他們如所應許的那樣純正地保守這和平，不為自己尋找任何足以引起爭端或忘恩的藉口，好使我們能為你的善意獻上更大的感謝。至於這信的持帶者，我們確以你的人相待，以應有的情誼接納了他們，因為理當以愛德接待並送別這些有智慧、又蒙天主眷佑前來宣告和平已成的人。